Who Should Install This Update?

Subscription Benefits

Subscription customers can now access selected subscription benefits without logging onto the Subscription Center. The following benefits are
available only to subscription customers.

Online Renewal

If you meet the online renewal program rules and your subscription expires soon, a balloon notification with the option to renew displays.
This notification displays only three times. If you have already renewed your subscription, or are not a subscription customer, these options
are not available.

In InfoCenter, follow the directions in the alert message that displays.

In InfoCenter, click the Subscription Center button. Under Benefits Center, click Click Here to Learn More About Your Subscription
Benefits and follow the directions that display.

eLearning

In InfoCenter, click the Subscription Center button. Under Benefits Center, click View eLearning Catalog or from the bottom of the
Subscription Center menu click an eLearning lesson. You will be prompted to sign-in to the Subscription Center.

Search

You can access some subscription-only learning and technical support without logging onto the Subscription Center. This includes eLearning
lessons.

New Advantage Packs

When a new advantage pack becomes available, a balloon notification and menu option displays. To review and download the advantage pack,
click the balloon notification or menu option. You must have permission to begin the download.
Contract managers and software coordinators can control access to advantage packs from the Subscription Center > Set Access from Product.
Instructions for setting access permissions are provided to contract managers and software coordinators prior to advantage pack releases.

During the installation of this update, you may be prompted for the original installation media or network image. In order to apply this
update, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.

Administrators can deploy this update over a network using the Deployment wizard.

After you install, product information displays in the About dialog box.

The following benign error message may be displayed when installing this update on non-English language operating systems,
or when the English product is installed on a non-English locale:

This error message may also be displayed when running the AutoCAD Civil Content Browser feature on certain non-English language
operating systems. If you see this error message, simply click OK and proceed with the update
installation or with using the Content Browser.

Important: You cannot run an automatic uninstall to remove this update. To restore your version of AutoCAD Civil 2010 to its pre-update
state, uninstall AutoCAD Civil 2010 and reinstall it.

Applying this Update Through Your Local Network Using a Patch List

Use this procedure if you want to use Communication Center to apply this update through your local network.

To apply this update through Communication Center using local patch list functionality

On a machine that has AutoCAD Civil 2010 installed, install the
Autodesk CAD Manager Tools. To install the Autodesk CAD Manager Tools, insert
the AutoCAD Civil 2010 product media and select Install Tools and
Utilities. On the Select the Products to Install page, select Autodesk CAD
Manager Tools. Click Next to review and accept the License Agreement, then
click Install to start the installation.

NOTE: The update should not be installed on this machine.

In a shared location, create a folder where the patches will be downloaded
to (for example, \\servername\shared_folder_location\).

The following method of distributing AutoCAD Civil 2010 Update 2
applies only to administrative images created with the AutoCAD Civil 2010
Network Installation wizard. After you complete this procedure, any new
deployments of AutoCAD Civil 2010 will have the update applied to them
automatically.

Issues Resolved for AutoCAD Civil 2010 Update 2

This update includes the resolution of over 40 issues. This section of the readme documents the resolved issues that
previously caused loss of data, unexpected failures of AutoCAD Civil, or reflect a change in functionality. You can view the issues resolved in
AutoCAD Civil 2010 Update 1 in the Update 1
Readme.

General

The geolocation information is now cleared properly every time you rebuild a mesh or close a drawing.

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly when you open object styles or object properties dialog boxes.

You can now save a drawing template that had password-protection properties removed.

Performance issues that occurred when you open legacy drawing files have been resolved.

Issues with system memory loss that occurred when performing various operations have been resolved.

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly, when you perform the Export Lists command in the Event Viewer on systems running on Windows Vista.

Alignments

The computational methods for compound Bi-quadratic, Bloss, and Sinusoidal spirals have been corrected. The updated computational methods
are applied to compound Bi-quadratic, Bloss, or Sinusoidal spirals when you open existing drawings.

In a floating line with spiral, the line length can be edited.

Offset alignments are now created as expected on alignments that have spiral-spiral-curve groups.

Alignment geometry doesn't get corrupted and alignment labels are no longer added to the tangent extension lines after you add labels to an alignment.

API

An error in LabelStyleCollection::Add() that caused a new label style to have no properties in the Text Component Editor dialog
is fixed.

Newly created LabelStyleTextComponent::StyleGeneral() objects now have a valid default AnchorPoint value.

Pipe structures now appear in the drawing after being added using the COM API, without the need to issue additional commands.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
The ProfileView.Overrides property has been renamed to ProfileView.GraphOverrides. You must recompile applications that use this
property against the AeccDbMgd.dll included with Update 2 to run in AutoCAD Civil 2010 Update 2. You do not need to recompile applications
that do not use this property.

Corridors

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly when you rebuild a corridor model with stations that lie outside the corridor feature line.

The operation of importing package files into catalog libraries no longer fails.

Cross Section Views

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly when you delete a surface that was referenced in the section views band set properties,
and then attempt to set the properties to a different surface.

You can now add a material list and specify that material list while you are creating section views. Previously,
the material list did not update.

Feature Lines

AutoCAD Civil behaves as expected when the Quick Profile command is invoked from within the Elevation Editor vista.

Grading

Grading projection lines and daylight lines that are assigned to separate layers now freeze and are not plotted when you specify the corresponding
settings in the Layer Properties Manager.

Labels

Labels in a dragged state maintain the dragged state when you reload an Xref drawing. Previously, if you reloaded the Xref drawing
the labels would revert back to the original state.

LandXML

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly when you import a LandXML file (with points that do not have the XYZ data) into a survey database.

Pipes

An issue involving random termination of the application when importing pipe networks using the LandXMLIn command has been resolved.

In a pipe network, swapping a structure with a structure from one of the new structure part families now works as expected.

Project Management

The AutoCAD Civil performance when using Vault for some operations (Login, Checkin, and Select Project to Display) has been improved.

AutoCAD Civil no longer crashes when you use the Get Latest Version command in Vault Explorer on a drawing that has been deleted.

In Vault Explorer, the context menu for a survey database now has a Check Out menu item.

You can now share surface data from a drawing that is added to a project.

You no longer lose all the shared surface information when you delete one of the shared drawings from Vault.

Surfaces

AutoCAD Civil no longer closes unexpectedly when you drag a surface in the Object Viewer.

Survey

Survey LandXML now supports the expected User Defined Property data types. Previously there was only
support for a data type String.